{"id":513,"date":"2009-01-07T14:32:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T18:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2009-01-07T14:32:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T18:32:51","slug":"or-forum-paper-on-personal-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/07\/or-forum-paper-on-personal-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"OR Forum paper on  Personal Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/orforum.blog.informs.org\/\">new paper and discussion at the OR Forum<\/a>.\u00a0 Raph Keeney published\u00a0 a neat paper entitled &#8220;Personal Decisions are the Leading Cause of Death&#8221; in <em>Operations Research<\/em>, where he argues that the choices people make (eating, drinking, etc.) cause more deaths than anything else.\u00a0 There are some very insightful commentaries about this, and I hope the paper and commentaries lead to an interesting discussion.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/orforum.blog.informs.org\/\">Check it out<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>This paper was the subject of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/177587\">Newsweek article<\/a>, and I suspect it will show up more in the media than most OR papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new paper and discussion at the OR Forum.\u00a0 Raph Keeney published\u00a0 a neat paper entitled &#8220;Personal Decisions are the Leading Cause of Death&#8221; in Operations Research, where he argues that the choices people make (eating, drinking, etc.) cause more deaths than anything else.\u00a0 There are some very insightful commentaries about this, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/07\/or-forum-paper-on-personal-decisions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OR Forum paper on  Personal Decisions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35,38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web","category-medicine","category-operations-research-journal","category-or-in-the-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}